verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
imagine a scenario
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It is difficult to imagine a scenario in which the company will give this information freely.
it is hard to believe/imagine/see/know etc
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It was hard to see what else we could have done.
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It’s hard to believe that anyone would say something like that.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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I said I always imagined the pattern starting at the N1 cam and spreading out to the point cams.
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He had always imagined that the key to good detective work was a close observation of details.
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It was precisely the sort of place where she had always imagined he would live.
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His hero is Jefferson, but the reporters always imagined that George Gallup ran a close second.
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It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be, and in its terrible way it was apt.
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I had always imagined holding her through labor, talking with her and somehow sharing in the pain.
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Until then she had always imagined him to be somehow insubstantial, a shadow of a man.
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I had always imagined I would find this true.
ever
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It had been perfect, so much more than she had ever imagined this act could be.
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The picture is far more complicated than Blue ever imagined .
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Nowhere in her wildest nightmares had she ever imagined anything like this!
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I was tougher and stronger than I ever imagined I could be, and I owed that to the Army.
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He had been everything she had ever imagined the man she loved would be.
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I would tell them that they could attain levels of quality and customer satisfaction greater than they had ever imagined .
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Nor did anyone ever imagine that such an attack could be made from the sea.
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For Arthur, this is the end of every happiness he ever imagined .
how
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Liz was asked to imagine how she would respond if she was faced with the same problems again.
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It is not hard to imagine how she felt.
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She couldn't imagine how she had allowed it to happen when everything within her head warned against it.
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To imagine how such a child might feel, picture yourself on a hot, lazy summer afternoon.
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Can you imagine how I felt?
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How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time?
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It is best not to build it at all but to imagine how it would work.
just
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Or am I just imagining all this, Ludens sometimes wondered.
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I can just imagine what he was saying privately about Johnson en route.
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Perhaps I just imagined hearing her moaning a little in the night, and shaking splinters of glass out of her long grey hair.
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Once that is accomplished, just imagine how far the two companies can carry this marvelous idea.
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He could just imagine the Woman hitting him, smashing at his face in the dark with the butt of her gun.
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Just imagine the hippocampus playing back a partial spatiotemporal pattern to the cortex-maybe a fragment of something from the previous week.
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I can't tell you how sorry I am, so you must just imagine it.
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Or was I just imagining that?
never
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We had never imagined we would put them to their intended use.
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Our relationship started as best friends, and we never imagined that should change.
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He was not to know that those pictures appalled her, that she had never imagined herself capable of such thoughts.
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But he never imagined how many people hungered for homes close to central Phoenix.
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I never imagined it would leave room for feelings of resentment and indifference.
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Why had she never imagined Bella as a redhead?
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Yet this moment of truth became life-changing, maturing, character-forming in a way Isaiah could never imagine .
why
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She had not been able to imagine why she should be suffering those anxiety attacks for so long.
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In hindsight, it is hard to imagine why Xerox chose not to exploit the Alto commercially.
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I tried to imagine why he lived such a quiet and lonely life in this far-off place.
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Not one of his friends had known him, + he couldn't imagine why .
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It was so obvious I couldn't imagine why I hadn't seen it before.
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She couldn't imagine why she had behaved as she had.
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This seemed to me so true that I couldn't imagine why it was not universally acknowledged.
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He was angry with her, but she couldn't imagine why .
■ VERB
begin
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The ache in her head got worse and she began to imagine a pain under her breastbone.
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I could not begin to imagine what my father would make of him.
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Towards the end of his shift he began to imagine things.
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I began to imagine throwing punches at the Bashers.
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I began to imagine that Pyke would understand everything I said.
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The person begins by imagining her or himself bathed in white light.
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If you really do not know where you were or what you were doing, begin by imagining the object itself.
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People immediately began imagining all the dumbest applications to which the miracle of cloning might lead.
can
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Thith lot only wear it in the evening, can you imagine that?
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He was straight from high school, can you imagine ?
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Nor can researchers imagine anyone walk-ing down into the earth through the mouth of a volcano as Verne proposed several centuries later.
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But it keeps escaping me, like the flea I picked off Violet this morning. Can you imagine ?
let
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Example: the timing of music Let us imagine that a school is planning a music curriculum programme.
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So let us imagine ourselves standing on this shore; let us say, on Manhattan Island.
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But to see how false this justification, let us play the equality card. Let us imagine boxing without the masculinity.
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Let us imagine boxing without the masculinity. Let us imagine two ladies slugging hell out of one another in a ring.
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It's like a form of vagueness that lets you imagine things, only you hear it.
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What can be wrong with this? Let us imagine ourselves as a reader of Penthouse in order to answer this question.
try
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The moment passed, and he tried to imagine what she was going through, how it felt to her.
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I tried to imagine the progress of his life: had it been chaotic or orderly?
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With empathy, we try to imagine what it is like being the other person and experiencing things as he does.
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He tried to imagine what happened to him after that, but those thoughts just confused him, so he gave up.
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She tried to imagine what Adam would expect her to do, how he would want her to handle herself.
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While I finish the applesauce and clean up the kitchen I try to imagine how this cabin must appear to Ethan Groate.
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While waiting I tried to imagine what she might have been thinking.
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Quinn tried to imagine him lying in his bed, sweating out a fever.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I should think/imagine/hope
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He said there might be one way, you know, I should think about it.
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I wouldn't mind. I should think he'd be very demanding.
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Interesting, I should think, with a name like Hamish.
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Look at my dad. I should think he's got half his lunch down his.
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Looking forward to getting back to your farm, I should think?
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Not for far, I should think - not if its nose has gone.
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Rather like seizure, I should imagine.
I would think/imagine/say
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And that, I would say, is what we, in our own religious rites, had best be doing too.
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Dominic remains, I would say, a preposterously beautiful creature.
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Elizabeth: I would say about 185 pounds.
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Is there a chance Chrysler might buy Fiat? I would think there's essentially zero chance of that happening.
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Perhaps it is more a matter for philosophers than scientists, but I would say not.
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Pretty heavily on fire, too, I would think.
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That is a prime question, I would say, of this hour in the bringing up of children.
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This looks tough, I would think, and then immediately forget about it.
can't begin to understand/imagine etc
fondly imagine/believe/hope etc
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Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves.
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Some Tories fondly imagine that privatisation will eliminate the need to subsidise the railways.
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The Gombe rainforest is not the sort of Eden we might fondly imagine.
just think/imagine/look
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Anyway, I just thought I'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point.
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I just think an organization like this should be hearing how the board thinks.
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I just thought something that was see through maybe on that wall would.
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I get a headache just looking at a cookbook.
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I promised myself I was just looking.
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I will spend that day in a field of black smokers, just looking.
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Similarly, you should not just look at the eyes or ears when there may be a problem here.
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We just thought - obviously very stupidly - that you might be working on something together.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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""I'm sure I saw Brian in the park today.'' ""No, you must be imagining things. Brian hasn't lived here for nearly fifteen years.''
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For a while she imagined that she was a rich woman, living in a beautiful house.
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From the description Janet gave in her letter it was easy to imagine what her new apartment was like.
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I can't imagine anyone wearing clothes that colour.
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I can quite easily imagine you running your own business.
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Just imagine having to spend the rest of your life in jail.
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Mary was always imagining that people were talking about her behind her back.
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The lake is much prettier than I had imagined.
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Try to imagine a room as big as a football field.
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When I was a child I would lie awake imagining that there were monsters in the dark corners of my room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But then you can't imagine that, can you?
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In an effort to restrain himself, he tried to imagine things in the worst possible light.
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It is impossible to imagine a Cheyenne war party coming out of the canyon, because the canyon is gone.
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It was hard to imagine how the system could be improved or made more convenient.
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Manson offers EMGs as an alternative, but I can't imagine anyone objecting to the sound of the Seymours.
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Now imagine 5 billion people, the entire population of Earth, each setting off a 24ton explosion at the same time.
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She had never suffered from claustrophobia, but right now she could imagine just how its victims felt.
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Surely she'd imagined it; the light wasn't very good, and Jean knew that shadows could be misleading.